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12 thoughts on “Children’s Hospital Waiting Room”

😦 How awful to have to wait in such circumstances. You captured that horrible feeling of limbo (“the waiting IS the hardest part”, as Tom Petty sang) perfectly. The grey and rainy image you used goes well with the sterility and harshness of the hospital scene. With the spiritual aspect/metaphors so closely entwined in this piece, I kept looking for some small sign of hope at the end. But that you chose not to show us any only hammers home the sense of helplessness and despair. I think this is a well-wrought poem. I can only hope it is not from a personal experience, and if so, you have my deepest sympathies for having to endure such things.